The Last of the Tame & Gentle Days
by Becky Dietz
I’ve been teaching our young people in our church about the Last Days. This past Sunday, I took them to II Timothy 3 and had them look up each word in verses 1-5 in the Blue Letter Bible (an app on our phones). In there, they found the original Greek meaning of these words. Of course, I’d researched it all myself before I gave them this task, but they surprised me with what they found!
I’d gone directly to the Greek meanings when I’d researched, but they paid attention to every detail. In verse 1 when it talks about the last days, last means “final.” Days means a 24 hour period or the last days of this present age. But the young man who looked it up also found days to be closely akin to the word which means “tame and gentle.” Wow!!!
Are we in those days? The final days of this present age? The last of the tame and gentle days? If we believe the countdown of the last days began in 1948 when Israel became a nation—then, yes. Are the birth pains speeding up and becoming more intense? Our youth had a strong opinion about that—adamantly YES! Will we see see harder things? Absolutely. Do we have to fear what’s ahead? NO! God has gone before us! And I believe these days may actually bring about our greatest opportunitities as believers.
The tame and gentle days may be behind us.
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